Best Drama movies that are award winners or nominees

Good Morning, Vietnam(1987)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 23

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.



American Graffiti(1973)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

A couple of high school grads spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.



Pearl Harbor(2001)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 22

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.



Rocky III(1982)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 23

After winning the ultimate title and being the world champion, Rocky falls into a hole and finds himself picked up by a former enemy.



Heavenly Creatures(1994)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 26

Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.



The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)

Combined Rating:
47
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.



Doctor Zhivago(1965)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during the First World War and then the October Revolution.



Harold and Maude(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

Young, rich, and obsessed with death, Harold finds himself changed forever when he meets lively septuagenarian Maude at a funeral.



The Hustler(1961)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 24

An up-and-coming pool player plays a long-time champion in a single high-stakes match.



Anna and the King(1999)

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Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

The story of the romance between the King of Siam and widowed British schoolteacher, Anna Leonowens, during the 1860s.



The Last Picture Show(1971)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 28

In 1951, a group of high schoolers come of age in a bleak, isolated, atrophied West Texas town that is slowly dying, both culturally and economically.



The Right Stuff(1983)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

The story of the original Mercury 7 astronauts and their macho, seat-of-the-pants approach to the space program.



Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle(1994)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 52

Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.



Tár(2022)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 46

Set in the international world of Western classical music, the film centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer-conductors and first-ever female music director of a major German orchestra.



The Lovely Bones(2009)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 21

Centers on a young girl who has been murdered and watches over her family - and her killer - from purgatory. She must weigh her desire for vengeance against her desire for her family to heal.



Georgia(1995)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 56

Sadie is desperately looking up to her older sister Georgia who is a famous C&W artist. Sadie wants to be a famous artist like her sister, but is always doing everything wrong. Her ...



The Wolfman(2010)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 22

Upon his return to his ancestral homeland, an American man is bitten, and subsequently cursed by, a werewolf.



The Affair of the Necklace(2001)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 49

In pre-Revolutionary France, a young aristocratic woman left penniless by the political unrest in the country, must avenge her family's fall from grace by scheming to steal a priceless necklace.



The Ghost and the Darkness(1996)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 25

A bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.



12(2007)

Combined Rating:
46
Combined Critics Rating: 36

Twelve jurors must decide the fate of a Chechen adolescent charged with murdering his stepfather.




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